In the early hours of June 4, 1942, four Japanese aircraft carriers led the attack on the U.S. base on Midway Island just six months after their attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Unbeknown to the ...

While the tactical result of the battle was stunning – the U.S. sunk four Japanese fleet carriers Hiryu, Soryu, Kaga and Akagi, a heavy cruiser and destroyed 248 enemy aircraft – it is the perilous ...

This week marks the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Midway, one of the most important naval battles of World War II. Naval Air Station-Corpus Christi marked the anniversary with a ceremony aboard ...

A deep-sea expedition has captured the first detailed view of the aircraft carrier Yorktown, which sank in 1942 during the Battle of Midway. It was located 25 years ago. The Ocean Exploration Trust ...

It was June 4, 1942, and World War II in the Pacific was almost six months old. Pearl Harbor lay far behind, a symbol of heartbreaking disaster; Singapore had fallen, and so had Rangoon, and so had ...

The Japanese Midway attack force was divided three ways. First, the aircraft carriers would approach from the northwest and knock out the islands’ defenses. Coming in from the west and southwest, the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — It’s rare when a movie — especially a war movie — sticks completely to the facts. But that is exactly what happened, with a couple of minor exceptions, in the new “Midway.” In 1976, ...

MIDWAY, THE BATTLE THAT DOOMED JAPAN (266 pp.)—Mitsuo Fuchida & Masatake Okumiya—U.S. Naval Institute ($4.50). In the months after Pearl Harbor, the restless aggressors who bossed the Imperial ...

A team of deep-sea explorers and historians have discovered a Japanese aircraft carrier that sank during the historic Battle of Midway in World War II. The wreckage of Akagi, which was sunk on June 5, ...

A team of deep-sea explorers and historians have discovered a Japanese aircraft carrier that sank during the historic Battle of Midway in World War II. The wreckage of Akagi, which was sunk on June 5, ...